Need something spooky to curl up with this Halloween night? Try BVC’s latest anthology, Mad Science Café Edited by Deborah J. Ross $4.99 (Anthology) ISBN 978-1-61138-328-7 From the age of steam and the heirs of Dr. Frankenstein to the asteroid belt to … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: October 2013
The Way of a Warrior is based on humanity, love, and sincerity; the heart of martial valor is true bravery, wisdom, love, and friendship. Emphasis on the physical aspects of warriorship is futile, for the power of the body is … Continue reading
Since you’ve at least pretended to pay attention to my home improvements, you deserve some kitten pictures.
Continue readingWWW Wednesday. This meme is from shouldbereading. Recent reads: Medair (duology) by Andrea Höst. This is a reread. The first time through I whizzed so fast to see what happened, I knew I was going to be coming back more slowly. As … Continue reading
When I sold my first book, the on-pub payment went to the purchase of a state-of-the-art machine: an IBM Correcting Selectric III, brand new, light brown. I named it Toast. (I am not the sort of person who commonly names … Continue reading
Meet founding member of Book View Café author Sarah Zettel, who writes in multiple genres with multiple pen names. She’s writing everything from hard SF as C.L. Anderson through fantasy and paranormal mystery as Sarah Zettel. Zettel also writes sensuous Regency Romance as Marissa Day, as well as Steampunk and YA. She served as Managing Director of Book View Cafe during its birth pains and first expansion into cooperative publishing. Here’s her take on the beginning.
Continue readingThis longtime horse trainer (including raising foals) and cat herder is now an accidental dog trainer, by grace of the gods and a puppy that materialized in the desert one blazingly hot summer afternoon. He arrived as if from nowhere, … Continue reading
by Laura Anne Gilman I often refer to “Zen and the art of writer maintenance,” and I’m only slightly tongue-in-cheek. But achieving even a hint of Zen-inspired serenity is difficult, especially when you have a brain that’s trained to look … Continue reading
It is unfortunately true that it is impossible to publish a partial work. A publisher cannot put half a novel up on the shelves at your local indie bookstore. The first duty of a writer is to finish writing the … Continue reading
Last week we looked at an exemplary monster of our times, Hannibal Lecter, who combines in one person both vampire and zombie, both predatory capitalism and coercive collectivism. After a recapitulation of the discourse so far, we’ll move on to … Continue reading